Can you schedule less aircon servicing sessions if you perform some aircon cleaning and maintenance on your own? D-I-Y aircon cleaning and maintenance can help you save some money in terms of electricity bills and aircon servicing costs. Why is that so?

By performing aircon cleaning and maintenance on your own, preferably every 2 to 4 weeks, you remove the accumulated dirt and dust which insulates the transfer of heat. When heat is transferred away from the room well, the aircon uses less energy and reduces your electricity bills. When the aircon is in excellent condition and is performing well, you are also more satisfied because you can enjoy the coolness quicker in your room. What is more important is that you may even postpone your aircon servicing and aircon steam cleaning by another 2 to 4 weeks and save you some money. This may also allow you to delay the performance of washing the aircon with chemical or overhauling the aircon by a longer period.

How to Perform Simple Aircon Cleaning and Maintenace?

Now we know that simple aircon cleaning and maintenance can save you some maintenance fee, the next question is how do you perform such simple aircon cleaning and maintenance on your own? Is it difficult or time consuming to perform the aircon cleaning and maintenance. This kind of aircon maintenance is sometime known as Routiine Aircon Cleaning.

Cleaning the Aircon Filter

When you reach home today, just pull out all your aircon filters and bring them to the bathroom. When you are bathing, just spray the water with your shower head to remove the dirt and dust accumulated. Sometimes you may have to rub the filter a little to remove the dirt and dust completely. It is important that your shower head is able to spray water at high pressure to effectively remove the dirt and dust. After washing the filter, you can continue with your bathe. It is quite simple and hassle free. However, you may wish to wash the aircon filter in the morning instead of the evening because the filter will take some time to dry. If you wash in the evening, it may not be dry and you cannot switch on the aircon when you are going to bed.

Some people prefer a “dry wash” for the aircon instead of the “wet wash”. If this is the case, you just have to use a vacuum to suck all the dirt and dust from the aircon filter. When you “dry wash” the aircon filter, you need not wait for it to dry. You can place the aircon filter back to the aircon immediately after the “dry wash”.

Cleaning the Fins of Fan Coil

If you wish to go beyond the aircon filter, you can rinse the fins with water to remove some dirt from the aircon fins in the fan coil. This will clean up the fins a little. A thorough aircon chemical cleaning and steam cleaning is still required periodically even if you perform this. As rinsing the fins with water can be messy and if you are not comfortable with performing this step, you should just clean the aircon filter and skip this aircon fins cleaning maintenance procedure.

Check the Fan of the Outdoor Unit and Wash its Fins

The Outdoor unit refers to the Compressor-Condenser Unit where heat is transferred there and removed. The fins and fan at the aircon outdoor unit help to remove the heat. Make sure the fan is spinning well and nothing is obstructing it. Spray water preferably with reasonably high pressure water spray at the fins of the outdoor unit every 2 to 3 weeks to remove the dirt. As it is located outdoor, it tends to be dirtier than the indoor unit. Cleaning the fins of outdoor unit is normally perform by the aircon servicing technician. You should only perform if you are used to performing many D-I-Y tasks. Otherwise, you should just wait for the aircon servicing technician to perform.

Aircon Servicing SG

Our Aircon Servicing Professional is able to show you how to perform such aircon cleaning regularly on your own. We can instruct you on how to perform routine aircon cleaning when we are at your premising performing the Aircon Chemical Wash or Aircon Steam Cleaning for you. If you need an aircon overhaul because your aircon is very dirty, we will be happy to schedule a convenient date to perform it as soon as possible.

Have you ever dry wet clothes in aircon room? Do you think they dry faster or slower? In Singapore humid climate, it may not be easy to dry your clothes outdoor especially at night. Some of you who owns an electrical dryer can dry your clothes with it. However, it will consume great amount of electricity. Why don’t you try a more energy efficient method to dry your clothes? You can dry wet clothes in the aircon room. As the humidity level in an aircon room is usually quite low, the wet clothes tend to dry fast in the aircon room.

Wet Clothes also act as Humidifier

Besides drying the clothes, the wet clothes also act as a humidifier and reduce the dryness of the air created by the aircon. In this way, you are able to save some money buying a humidifier.

If you are not hanging wet clothes or installing a humidifier, it is good for you to place a place of water in the aircon room to keep a healthy humidity level. This is because dry air in the aircon room can sometimes affect our skin and respiratory function.

It is always tempting to install an aircon in the kitchen because it would make cooking more enjoyable in a cool environment.

However, most households in Singapore do not install an aircon in the kitchen. However, there is increasing trend of installing aircon in the kitchen. You may wish to take not of the following points before you install the aircon in the kitchen:

Heat generated when cooking – you need an aircon with higher BTU to ensure that there is sufficient power to cool down the kitchen while you are cooking. This also means that the energy consumption for the aircon in the kitchen will be higher.

Dirt, Carbon and Oil trapped in the aircon filter – As the smoke and oil vapour is filtered by the aircon, the aircon in the kitchen tends to be dirtier than the other rooms. As such, it is more difficult to clean and needs to be cleaned more frequently. A dirty aircon (especially with a layer of oil) may not remove heat efficiently. The aircon should also schedule for more steam cleaning and chemical wash to be clean more thorough.

You should install a cooking hood if you wish to install the aircon in the kitchen. The hood will suck away some smoke and oil vapour so that it will rely on the filtration of the aircon. In this way, your aircon will not be as dirty as a kitchen without the hood. It also sucks away some heat from the kitchen.

Recently, there are many mist fan appearing in Singapore eating places and open areas. Have you ever thought of putting an indoor mist fan in your aircon room? Is it advisable to do so? Can I service the aircon less often with mist fan?

Recapping on How Aircon Works

We mentioned in another page on how aircon works and also video on refrigerant cycle. Aircon basically blow air on cold surfaces to generate cold air. The heat of the cold surfaces is absorbed by the liquid refrigerant when it evaporates to gas refrigerant. The gas refrigerant travels to the compressor-condenser unit where it releases heat by condensing to form liquid refrigerant.

How Mist Fan Works

Misting fan forces water through tiny holes and spray these fine water droplets or mist into air. When the fan blow the mist into the air, it accelerates the evaporation process and cools the surrounding. During evaporation process, heat is required and as such it cools down the surrounding. This is the same theory as applying more heat to speed up evaporation. In the case of mist fan, we speed up evaporation by increasing the surface area of water exposing to air and as such, heat is taken up during the evaporation process of the water droplets or mist.

The droplets are so fine that you should not be wet if you are not too close to it. With mist fan, the room will cool faster than conventional fan. By putting mist fan in the aircon room, you doubling the evaporation process, one through the aircon and another through mist fan.

Moreover, the evaporation in the aircon room will be faster than outdoor in Singapore. When the fan coil blow air on cold surfaces, the water vapour condenses and is drained away. This lowers the humidity level of the air in the room. With lower humidity, it means that the mist produced by the mist fan should evaporate faster or instantaneously when it is blown out.

Humidifier Effect by Mist Fan

The mist fan also act as a humidifier in an aircon room and maintain the humidity of the room. This means that you need not separately buy an humidifier. Having a reasonable humidity level in the room is critical for babies and promote better skin condition for adults.

As fan uses less electricity than aircon, cooling the room with mist fan should be more energy efficiency. The only issue about mist fan is that it takes up some space in the room. Though there is ceiling mist fan, the design may not be very nice at the moment.

Many of you would have heard of mist fan. Have you ever thought of putting an indoor mist fan in your aircon room? Will this arrangement work? This arrangement should work well. It may even reduce the frequency of your aircon servicing.

Is it helpful or necessary to install an aircon humidifier and purifier in an aircon room?

Air Humidifier in Aircon Room

As the cooling process of the aircon involves the condensation of water in the air, the humidity in an aircon room is usually low. Low humidity will lead to skin dryness and other health issues. As such, it is always good to have an air humidifier in the aircon room to balance the humidity of the room. Humidity level should be kept at between 25% to 50% relative humidity for good health. There are different types and sizes of humidifiers. Natural Humidifier uses dry a wick to absorbs water from a reservoir. Evaporative Humidifier is a Natural Humidifier with a fan to speed up the evaporative process. Vaporizer or Steam Humidifier heats the water and release steam into the air. Mist and Ultrasonic Humidifier spray fine droplets or fog into the air.

Air Purifier in Aircon Room

For air purifier, its purpose is to purify the air. As mentioned in another article, the purifier may help a little when someone is smoking in an aircon room. The main usefulness of having the air purifier is to remove contaminants which may lead to allergy and asthma to sensitive individuals. Some air purifiers claimed to remove carbon dioxide and keep the air fresh.

Of course, air humidifier and purifier is good to have inside an aircon room to improve the air quality by balancing humidity and removing the contaminants.

3-in-1 Aircon

Aircon manufacturer has looked into the needs for air humidifier and purifier. Some latest aircon models have built-in air humidifier and purifier to better serve the requirements of users. Would you buy an aircon with built in humidifier and purifier? Or would you have a separate humidifier and purifier? This is individual’s preference. However, from an aircon technician point of view, installing a built-in air humidifier and purifier in an aircon may complicates the aircon repair and aircon servicing work if aircon breaks down. The cost of repair will also be higher.

Aircon Servicing

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Aircon chemical wash

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Aircon Steam Cleaning

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Can you schedule less aircon servicing sessions if you perform some aircon cleaning and maintenance on your own? D-I-Y aircon cleaning and maintenance can help you save some money in terms of electricity bills and aircon servicing costs. Why is that so? By performing aircon cleaning and maintenance on your own, preferably every 2 to […]

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It is always tempting to install an aircon in the kitchen because it would make cooking more enjoyable in a cool environment. However, most households in Singapore do not install an aircon in the kitchen. However, there is increasing trend of installing aircon in the kitchen. You may wish to take not of the following […]

Recently, there are many mist fan appearing in Singapore eating places and open areas. Have you ever thought of putting an indoor mist fan in your aircon room? Is it advisable to do so? Can I service the aircon less often with mist fan? Recapping on How Aircon Works We mentioned in another page on how aircon […]

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